1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968159103321

Autore

Cecchin Gianfranco <1932-2004.>

Titolo

The cybernetics of prejudices in the practice of psychotherapy / / in alphabetical order, Gianfranco Cecchin, Gerry Lane, Wendel A. Ray ; foreword by Bradford P. Keeney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 1994

ISBN

1-78181-126-1

0-429-91248-X

0-429-47348-6

1-282-90036-6

9786612900365

1-84940-160-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 p.)

Collana

Systemic thinking and practice series

Altri autori (Persone)

LaneGerry

RayWendel A

KeeneyBradford P

Disciplina

155.8/2

616.8914

Soggetti

Psychotherapy

Cybernetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-71) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; EDITORS' FOREWORD; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO A theory of the cybernetics of prejudices; CHAPTER THREE Clinical prejudices; CHAPTER FOUR Managing discourse about prejudices: the heart of therapy; CHAPTER FIVE Closing comments on the therapeutically correct; EPILOGUE The last family therapist; REFERENCES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, the authors identify the therapist's values and beliefs which they describe as prejudices, they then identify the equivalent prejudices held by the family, and finally, they trace the ways a prejudice from one side affects the other and is, in turn, affected by the other.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961495803321

Autore

Limon John

Titolo

Writing after war : American war fiction from realism to postmodernism / / John Limon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772695-X

1-280-44289-1

1-4237-3860-8

0-19-535859-7

1-60129-967-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

813.009/358

Soggetti

War stories, American - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - United States

Realism - In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Art of War: The Contest and the Duel; 2. Swords to Words: Realism and the Civil War; 3. Goddesses on the Battlefield: The Combatant Novels of Tourgée, Cable, and De Forest; 4. Temporal Form and Wartime: Modernism After World War I; 5. The Postmodernization of World War II; 6. Diversions: A Theory of the Vietnam Sports Novel; 7. Family Likenesses: War in Women's Words; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This treatise develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, to make sense of American literary history in particular. "The Iliad", argues the author, inaugurates literary history on the failure of war to be formally beautiful.